Is American culture a sustainability problem?

key themes for debate:

1. risk / cultural
2. regulation / governmental + political
3. corporations/PR/advertising /// economic

yes

Ted Talk, December 2010. Naomi Klein: Addicted to Risk

no

Ronald Reagan, announcement of candidacy for President, November 1979

other

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Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle (check out the wiki, full text at the bottom)
Frontline: Merchants of Cool
Film: Toxic Sludge is Good For You: The PR Industry Unspun
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January 12, 2010. The Guardian. US cult of greed is now a global environmental threat, report warns: Excessive consumption has spread to developing countries and could wipe out efforts to slow climate change, Worldwatch Institute says

Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2008. Entrepreneurship as America’s Greatest Export.

Steele, E.D. and Redding, W.C. (1962). The American Value System: Premises for Persuasion,Western Speech, 26, 83-91
Related: http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/american_values.htm

May, 200. The Economist. The United States of Entrepreneurs

Reich, R. (2005). The Lost Art Of Democratic Narrative. The New Republic, March 21, 2005
http://www.robertreich.org/reich/20050321.asp
Related: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/reich_narrative.htm

December, 2006. The American: The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute. In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship



Schultz, P. W. (Aug 2002) "Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors Across Culture," Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Chomsky, Noam. "Prerogatives of Power," Truthout. 2014.